This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Civil Rights Heritage Center holds talk with jazz flutist about women in jazz ...

Well, you probably should. Not only was Cox a legendary folk singer, but he was known, too, as a fighter for social justice during the Civil Rights Movement. Cox died Friday. He was 82. The story was ...

Campaign fliers and photographs from Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition remind us how Asian American activists participated in this multiracial political movement ... affordable housing, and civil ...

Though Cole is primarily remembered for his jazz and pop hits, the emotive power ... danger Black public figures faced and galvanized Cole’s commitment to the Civil Rights Movement. It is important to ...